Tuesday, April 13, 2010
City Weekly Brings the Gold
Posted By Jerre Wroble on April 13, 2010, 11:17 AM
Congratulations to our top dogs in a highly competitive contest.
Staff
reporter Eric Peterson brought home
two first places for his feature on Rick Koeber in "All Bets Are Off"
and his look at tax breaks in Utah's oil and gas industry in "Jacked." He also brought home an
honorable mention for a feature on IHC titled "Shake Down."
Former
staffer Ted McDonough garnered a
second place for his investigative feature on Salt Lake City surveillance in
"They Are Watching You."
Freelancer Wren Abbott earned a second place in
her "Child's Play" feature about youth motocross in Salt Lake City.
Complete details follow:
Category
16 B: General Reporting Business
1st place: Eric
Peterson, “Jacked” City Weekly
Judge's comments: Good
read, you felt you got the whole
enchillida when you finished Peterson’s story. He took a complicated
subject and made it understandable. Nice work
2nd
place: Renee McGaw "Losing HQ's" Denver Business Journal
3rd place:
Renee
McGaw “Banks Struggle to Lend” Denver Business Journal
Category
18B: Investigative/Enterprise Business
1st place: Eric
Peterson “All Bets Are
Off” Salt Lake City Weekly
Judge's comments: A
fast talking con man is taken down.
Looks like this story was part of an ongoing series of reports on Mr.
Koerber. The reporter did a good job of covering this from A to Z.
Interesting read
2nd
Renee McGaw “Lenders Bitten by
Jaguar” Denver Business Journal
3rd
Paula Moore “Advisor Faces
Legal Trouble” Denver Business Journal
Category 12 B: Science/Environmental/Healthcare
Reporting
1st: J. Adrian Stanley,
Colorado Springs Independent, “The Tick and the Time Bomb”
2nd: Staci Matlock, Santa Fe
New Mexican, “Tracing Water’s Hidden Journey”
Honorable mention: Eric Peterson, "Shakedown" Salt Lake
City Weekly
Category
4B: Investigative/Enterprise
1st
place: Laura Snider, Daily Camera,
Boulder’s fall from the Kyoto protocol
2nd
place: Ted McDonough, Salt Lake City
Weekly, They Are Watching You
Honorable
mention: Adrian Stanley, Colorado
Springs Independent, Tabor Tyranny
Category 14B: Sports Feature
1st place: Ian St. Clair, Wyoming
Tribune Eagle, “Lane Frost”
2nd place: Wren Abbott, Salt Lake
City Weekly, “Child’s Play”
Judge’s comments: Vivid descriptions made
this feature on children’s motocross come to life. The story provides an
intriguing look into this controversial sport.
3rd place: Dale Shrull, Glenwood
Springs Post Independent, “Stonehouse dreams big”
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